Tag: Thriller
Queen & Slim and the Audacity of Black Love in a Time of Anti-Black Hostility
The challenges that racism presents to black life are manifold and well know to all who wish to acknowledge them. Whether it’s with employment, housing, or even going about daily life, reasonable people know that racism can present…
Read More »Middleburg Film Festival: Stunningly Intense and Emotional, Waves Examines Family and the Complexity of Black Parenting
Family structure is one of the most important influences on a child’s development. The environment children are reared under has long-lasting effects on how they process things and who they become later in life. Familial relationships are full…
Read More »Don’t Let Go is Less than the Sum of Its Parts
They say that love conquers all and when you really love or feel loved by someone deeply, it can feel as if that statement is absolutely true. Losing a person you love is one of the hardest things…
Read More »Both Thrilling and Funny, Ready or Not Cleverly Uses Satire to Examine the State of the World
When you turn on the TV these days, it feels as if the western world is caught in a giant game of tug of war. Millions of people seem poised and fired up to fundamentally change societies in…
Read More »Under The Silver Lake is a Paranoid Love Letter to Los Angeles and Film Noir
“We crave mystery because there’s none left.” The millennial generation is infamously underpaid, overworked, and lagging behind where their parents were at the same age in terms of life accomplishments and experiences. These conditions provide a recipe ripe…
Read More »Us Explores the Peril of Hiding Mistakes in an Allegory for Modern America
************************This review contains spoilers**************************** “Once upon a time, there was a girl. The girl has a shadow; the two were connected.” Us is the hotly anticipated follow-up to writer/director Jordan Peele’s paradigm shifting directorial debut Get Out. The…
Read More »Triple Frontier Presents a Story of Greed and Vengence Amidst an Allegory for Modern Warfare
************************This review contains spoilers**************************** In Triple Frontier, former Special Forces operative and current mercenary Santiago “Pope” Garcia (Oscar Issac) becomes disenchanted after a career of service for the United States military and years of attempting to put a…
Read More »Greta is an Enticing Thriller that Explores Our Growing Loneliness Epidemic
************************This review contains a mild spoiler**************************** “We were meant for love. Not this terrible isolation, Frances.” We are currently living in an era of human history that has connected people around the globe on an unprecedented level. A…
Read More »Braid is an Offbeat Thriller Full of Mystery and Tantalizing Visuals
************************This review contains spoilers**************************** “In this house nothing has changed. I’ve never changed. Here, everything is possible.” Braid features two young women, Petula Thames (Imogen Waterhouse) and Tilda Darlings (Sarah Hay) who are wanted criminals in need of…
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Uncut Gems is the Latest Thrilling Entry in the Safdie Brothers Gritty NYC Universe
New York City is known for many things. Being the “City that Never Sleeps”, home to various cultures and people from around the world. But its hustle and bustle may be its most enduring feature, still known around…
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